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THE WORLD

WORLD OF

OF BOOKS

MAIL REVIEWS.”

EDGAR WALLACE AND OTHERS.

THE FAR CALL

must leave the

To help us please the

ear;

of it: It (the book) has been The lyric muse sacred nine "praised and commended by all "sorts of people, including at least "one-Bishop. They are very short- "sighted. They fall to see that "Ludwig is disqualified for writing on this subject by one fatal

By Edison Marshall (Hodder and defect: He does not really believe

"in Jesus" (Italics ours). Stoughton). "..

Plutus limps homeward with us,

as we leave

The portals of the temple where we

knelt

And latened while the god of

eloquence

(Hermes of ancient days, but now

disguised

in sable vestments) with that other

god

Somnus, the Son of Erebus and

Nor;

Fights in unequal contest for our

Boula;'.

The dreadful sovereign of the

underworld

Still shakes his sceptre at us, ahd.

we hear

Before making any comment on The author of "The Land of For this we may say that on this prin gotten Men," "The Voice of theiple the works on Oriental Reil- Pack" and so many other kindred gions of all the men mentioned stories published by the firm of above from Gutzlaff to Legge may ⠀⠀⠀ Hadder and Stoughton, presents a be put in the waste-paper basket: story of lands north of the Aleutian for none of them bellaves in these Islands that string off between religions In Dr. Campbell's sonse. Alaska and Siberia. Those roam However, we are in complete ing spirits who have travelled by disagreement with the Rev. B, J. the islanda of the Pribilefs, will Campbell. We don't want works find much of interest, and all those by fanatical believers. An atute who delight in stories of the ad-critical faculty and a disinclination venturous lands worth of fifty-three to believe anything heavily are will revel in the story involving very valuable assets for a writer on a girl, an Englishman, Americans comparative religion. Newman's cannot without and a Russian located far away, in dictum,

once that district. The story is full of absurdity call ourselves at action and the "woman in the case" believers and Inquirers also," Bi- presents no small excitement. The ply makes an oyster of his raind. end comes with- the fight of two strong men and the love of the woman for the victor. A good yarn, interestingly told..

THE GUESTS OF CHANCE.

By Mrs. Victor Rickard (Hodder

and Stoughton).

OUTSPOKEN, -

The baying of the triple-throated

hound;

Eros is young as ever and as fair The lovely goddess born of ocean's

foam."

NATIONAL CHARACTER."

Dr.

Dr. Kato seems to strain a point to show that there is a In this study of Shinto, at any monothelatic element in Shinto. It rate, we have this unique attrac- seems quite unnecessary, Shinto is tlon-It is by one of the race whose quite patently polytheistic. National Religionis Shintoism. Kato has far too much faith in Being a Japanese, he can senso, as Andrew Lang's "Religion in the no foreigner ever could hope to do, Making." Andrew Lang's theories the subterranean Influences for were made in Edinburgh and not in good and ill of this religion on the close contact with Darumulun. They national life and consciousness. evaporate on close inspection. It

The book is outspoken and con- did, and seems free from fanatical partisanship

The author is no novice in the art of storytelling and has many

lá very significant that the only, one absorbing books to her credit. One

of these..primitive supreme Gods which Prof. Kato has been able to feature of this particular story is

The elements which go to form study at close range thua die that the chapters (49 in all) are short, and very readable. A girl; religion and worship, whether appears. Listen to what he says handicapped by a brother who among the 'higher or less advanced on Wanin, the greatest Ged of the of old proves to be a rotter, tries to make races, are probably an amalgam of primitive monothelem

Magic, Korea: "On a closer examination good. Her struggles to help her very diverse ingredients. unworthy brother and, at the same Hero worship, phallicism, ancestor "we have found that Wanin. is not animiem, totemism,"a dolty of Korean origin at all;. time, to hold. her head up above worship. water make very interesting read-shadows, ghosts, dreams, human "on the contrary, he is nothing but probably added "a Buddhistic God of Vedic origin”. ing. The theft of valuable jewels sacrifice, have all complicates the situation, but the their quota to the motley complex, (p. 62). If carefully examined, all lover of the girl clears up the situa- and are in the very warp and weft the other primitive monotheistic delties would fade away in like tion eventually and all ends well. of every modern religion. Written by a woman, the book will

manher.. appeal not only to her own sex but to any man who delights in intrigue and action. I recommend this book a vitally interesting.....

AGAIN, THE THREE JUST MEN.

By Edgar Wallacé. (Hodder and

Stoughton).

the

SATURDAY, JUNE 30,

DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-nord pura shas been made by: but our readers are warned to look out for o phonetic spellings, such as harbor,

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VERTICALS

1-A Ballor 2-Diminutivo suffix s-What to plug of

lint for closing 'm'; wound? 00 4-Toward the tow

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af musolea 24-Tidy 38-8odlum

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Ecotland:"

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Dr. Kato very candidly refers to

Prof. Kato emphasises the signs of most of these in early Shintoism, and to the vestiges of National character of the religion. some of them even up to more "Every national deity is bound to modern.times. In Christianity and Its own land or soll." "A Shinto its predecessor we have them too, deity and the land of Japan are in- blatant, sometimes eoparably connected." Though the sometimes. thinly disguised. Human sacrifice professor does not give a hint of is luckily averted through the mis such a bellef perhaps we might fortunes of a ram; animal wor- suggest that this local exclusiveness ship and ophiolatry have their on the part of the Shinto deities golden calf and snake, sublimed may have something to do with the alightly in the New Testament to, signal failure of the Japanese when. "AB Moses lifted up the serpent they go to a foreign country such In the wilderness," etc.; the phallic as Koreathe Kusanagi Sword,

"the Divine Emblem of the Ateuta TRAP FOR UNWARY. "Shrine, could not be taken away "out of the land of Japan."

How can I criticise the works of one who has never falled to provide thrilling interest in every one of his many stories? Every book lover knows Edgar Wallace, and every one knows that he never dia-Yahweh recedes and his worship appoints. In this, his newest pub- takes the form of "a spiritual cir lication, he provides a series of cumcision." But the slaughter of the Foundation" God, the scape- short stories destined to keep the sleepiest reader awake unt!! the goat, and the more repulsive as pects of the Eucharist are still ac end is reached. For a week-end's cepted by many 'so called Christian reading, full of interest and action, believers. Shintoism, on the whole I cannot recommend a more,, ab-

to have ahaken off its sorbing series of short stories. neolithic legacy more easily and Edgar Wallace at his best!

more effectually.

Strathcona."

THE RISING SUN.

[A Study of Shinto. The Religion

Beems

POLYTHEISTIC RELIGION.

26 Profities 24-To disabla

|26-A"jumping. amphibian

| 27-Period of time -

30-What Welth

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Go Fomancesta?

87-What American

general was killed at Bunker Hill? 38-Furnished

valni

with

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Maï naval evolutions.

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rinder calipus OM-

40-Not many.

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wrote the Masalah? 51-A rodent

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's isstier along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

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An ingenious method of getting: rich quickly and at the expense of other people has apparently been perfected by a man interested in old books.

The latter part of Prof. Kato'a book shows us how the mind of man these elementary sublimes,"all beliefs and superstitions, and gra dually as in a crucible extracts the fine gold. The resultant religion leads almost to a common form of thought be the adherent of what A well-known bookseller, giving country or creed he may. The the facts to a "Daily Mail reporter, language of religion like the

Of course, it is a polytheletic language of music and. of poetry is religion. Practically every reli-well-nigh universal. gion is. Pure monotheism seems

When all I was to all men's sight

Too

of the Japanese Nation, by to be an especial product of the de- When, overarched by gorgeous night, Genchl Kato, D.Litt. Melj aert. The desert breeds it much as I wave my trivial self away; Japan Society. 9/- nett.] it breeds peculiar quadrupeds with Shares the erasure of the day. The scientific study of the very long hind legs like the Then do I cast my cumboring load, religions of the world has suffered jerbos and the kangaroo. Once the Then do I gain s-sense of God, religions of the angle students religion leaves the desert it grade od 1 62, I shall note are concerned owing to the factually takes on the polytheistic form. Know, though he dwells exceeding nigh, that the accessible accounts of them At first it may be trithelam; but it Raise thou the stone and find mis there are generally by people allen from soon. apotheosises new gods. Cleave thon the wood and there am I. them, in thought and very often of Bacchus becomes St. Baccho and Yea, in my flesh his spirit doth flow, British nationality. Not only so, Aesculapius becomes rebaptised es nest, too far, for me to know... but while generally well meant and Our Lady of Lourdes. In the temWhate or my deeds, I am not sure Intentionally impartial, they are perate and colder regions where That I can pleasure him or vex; mostly written by missionaries there are the violent changes of that must use a speech so pear It arrows the Supreme with sex. fe. by persons one of whose main winter and summer, we easily get Notes be the good or ill in man7 objects in life is the Inculcation of a dualism of god and devil, or to hope he cares is all I can."

Ormuz And Ahriman. In the a form of rival religion.

We might quote examples of greater variety of the tropics.every I hope with fear. For did I trust

This vision granted me at birth what we mean from the works of oddly-shaped stone or curious tree The sirs of heaven would seem less fost man such se Gutzlaff, Edkins, becomes a fetish. The more civil Eitel, Soothill, Legge, and many ised peoples shake off the coarser others. Probably few of the ac aspects of these beliefs, but they counts of Oriental Religions which still have them. these men have written would pass muster with a bellover or even a sympathetic adherent of any of these religions,

THE OTHER SIDE. Look now at the other side of the pletture. Dr. Ludwig, a Jew, has written a biography of Jesus, called The Son of Man. This la what the Rer. I. J. Campbell says.

Whom do we trust and serve?

we speak of one And how to many: Athens still

would find":

The Shrines of all she worshipped

and the thrones That crowned Olympus mighty as of

old

The God of Music rules the Sabbath

choirt

ING

Than many a faulty son of earth And so he seems, indeed! But then, I trust it not, this bounded ken And dreaming much, I never dare To dream that in my prisoned soul The Butter of a trembling prayer Can move the Mind that is the whole, Though kneeling nations watch and Does the primordial purpose tura? Unmeet to be profaned by praise Is he whose colls, the world enfold;" The God on whom 1'svar 2124, *). The God I never once behold: Above the cloud, beneath the clod The Unknown God, the Unknown God,

ald

I observed in a periodical an advertisement by a gentleman who stated that he wanted to buy a copy of "Poetry for Children

an anonymous work in two volumes published in 1809 and now known to have been written by Charles Lambs Only two copies are known, and the price at the present time would certain ly be in the vicinity of £2,000.

I thought I would test the honesty of the man, so I wrote stating I had a copy, The reply was, "I thank you for your letter re your two vols of Poetry for Children Of all children's books. I think this is the nicest and most present suitable for giving as a,

to a child, and will offer you $1 for the work or

My reply was expressly worded to test the advertiser. I wrote: "I did not know that you wanted my little book of Poetry for Chil dren to give as a present to child. If it is going to make little child happy, I could think of accepting money for

but would like to make you a pre- sent of the little book. I s Fjust like to look it over before

sending it on so will send Whitsun, as I am going down Southend for a few days."

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